The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-03-16
And Still the Heathen Ragoth.


A week or two since the REPUBLI.
CAN copied an item from the Tidioute
NeiCs, which showed the utter falsity
of "a Taxpayers" figuring on county
printing in the National of the week
previous. We did this, not that any
one in this community or surroundings
has been paying the slightest attention
to the rawlings of the owner of the
aforesaid National; not that any one
with thimbleful Of brains believes
that Taxpayers" article was written
outside of that Office; not that we
could not, weeks ago, have shown
what was gripping the owner aforesaid
not for any of these reasons, for they
are all as plain to the people of Forest
county, and to aoy casual observer,
for that matter, as the nose on the
aforesaid owners face. But simply to
show how easily one entirely uuac.
quainted with the true inwardness of
the situation, could in a few words
knock all his iue spun theories into
sheol. To the people hereabouts it is
not necessary to spend time in refut.
ing the charges of extravaganza in
county officials made by one whose
own arguments brand him as a plum.
derer of public funds as long as he
could bully-rag the officials into pay.
ing him the prices be all at once has
discovered to he "extravagant." The
taxpayers of Forest county are right
"onto" all such lowlived and cowardly
retrenchments as that. The rogue
who would dive his greedy hands into
the public crib for years, demanding
up to the very last what be himself
calls exhorbitant bills, and still con
niving to make them greater, and then
whine like a cur when he finds, that,
in response to the earnest prayers of
the best people of the county, the off
cials have thrown him overheard, is
certainly fine spectacle to be bawling
himself hoarse over what he terms the
wrongs of the dear people. Ye gods,
what specimen brick
Would it not be infinitely better for
this individual to turn his attention to
living in peace with mankind and
thereby lessen the expenses of our
courts, which are such drain on the
public funds? Does any gentleman
who has been called to our courts re
member the time when be was moi
either prosecutor, prosecuted, plaintiff
OF defendant 10 the courts? 1t is 6
rare event indeed. And Why are nO
others mixed eternally in litigation
No longer ago than the last cnur
prosecutions were instituted which oc
cupied about four days of the court
valuable time at a greater expeus,
than all the county printing woulC
amount to in a whole year, and is i
difficult, for any one at all acquaintet
with the facts, to discover who the rea
instigstor was? Good citizens, wh,
we're innocently drawn in, turnet
away in disgust when they discoveret
the snake lurking in the grass. Thes
are matters in which halt should 3
called by the taxpayers of Fores
county.
While the officials of the county ar
going earnestly about their work O
administering the affairs thereof in a
honest, economical manner, "a fac
which is fully attested by the officis
reports audited and allowed bv a
honest board of auditors, assisted b
one of the most efficient and scrut
nizing clerks in the county, Mr.. j. II
Dingman,-this self.confessed pluu
derer Is waiting, only waiting. for a
opportunity to dive into the publ
crib clean up to the ears, as he nsve
has failed TO do when given a ehancC
Concluding we may add that the tax
payers are not complaining becaus
the officials are not wasting the publ
funds 10 assisting to keep Jake KeE
ler's SANDER sheet alive, and the
never will.